Remove needless functions from an io.ascii test helper file #15782 issue sloved - #15787

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unable to install repo dependencies

i have replaced the functions as mentioned but unable to run the tests

unable to update/upgrade astropy to the required version , there is a issue with the asdf-astropy,
i have tried to install the latest astropy version but yet the error persist

Two things:

1. You need MSVC to compile C-extensions if you are going to build astropy from source. MSVC installation is separate from pip. You need to follow your Windows side instructions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B
2. You need to fetch tags from upstream to get setuptools_scm to render the version properly. git fetch upstream --tags

Thank you for working on this. 2 general comments:

1. assert is a statement, not a function, and thus should be generally written without parentheses (a bit surprised Ruff or black don't catch this).
2. The failed imports show that there are still a number of uses of the removed functions left. You should check for any remaining occurrences e.g. with
   git grep assert_.*equal astropy/io/ascii

Your last commit brings in a number of changes inside your .vs subdirectory; this does not belong to the repo and you should neither add nor remove anything inside. @pllim is this a standard path for visual studio – should perhaps be added to .gitignore?

I suggest you git reset to your first commit and continue from there, so none of those files will show up.

@dhomeier i have double checked those functions uses and there are none remaining, the numpy.testing.assert_** is similar to those but i have not touched those

There are at least 4 imports left, see https://github.com/astropy/astropy/actions/runs/7321280634/job/19941477016#step:10:301

Someone familiar with Windows configuration will need to look into your pre-commit setup problems.
In the meantime you might try to at least install black and ruff (through conda or pip) to run the checks manually as described in https://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/development/codeguide.html#coding-style-conventions , i.e. either with tox -e codestyle, or if that does not work, black astropy/io/ascii and ruff --fix --show-fixes astropy/io/ascii.

The tox errors look the same as for pre-commit, or perhaps tox depends on pre-commit working.
But with the fixes from Ruff and black in, should be safe to commit and push the next attempt.

If Windows is giving you too much trouble, please consider using a Linux distro via WSL2.

The introduction of irrelevant IDE files is undesirable.

I have already requested clearing those from the branch. This will need squashing anyway – do you know if that will take care of removing those from the history for good?

Re: #15787 (comment)

Indeed squashing would clear them out but they have to disappear from the final diff first for that to work. Unless you remember to use the Squash and Merge button, it is safer to squash it locally and force push so we can have a clean PR history before merge.

If the files accidentally get in main, it is going to be a pain because I have to break rules and squash the main branch.

Yes, agreed this should be clean in the local branch first; that's why I had also suggested as a possible solution to do a (soft) reset to 4c62f32 or be9bf92 and then redo the commit without the junk files.

Sorry my college started that's why I was unable to work at it

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